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Posted by Richard Eney on July 2, 2008, 4:02 am
>On Jun 23, 8:10 pm, dicc...@radix.net (Richard Eney) wrote:
>> >> Anyone do it? Carol In WI
>>
>> >There are many groups devoted to tatting on the internet and
>> >there are several hundreds of tatters online worldwide.
>> >I am sure you'll find something if you do a search online.
>> >Dantatter
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>> I think the recent Piecework magazine has an article on tatting.
>> I never learned it - when I asked my great aunt, she said
>> "you don't want to learn this"!
>>
>> =Tamar
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>I have also heard this is very difficult to learn, and
>might not be worth the effort.
As I understand it, the individual knots are very simple,
but the trick is to make them precisely sized and placed.
Designs are built up and can be quite pretty, but overly
simple work seems to have given it a bad name, to the
point that the word "tatty" became a description of
something old, worn out, and probably stained, and
"tat" became a noun meaning "miscellaneous useless junk".
All of which is rather sad, because good tatting is
beautiful, delicate, and lacy.
Years ago I knew a computer programmer who did tatting
while waiting for test programs to run.
=Tamar
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